Not exactly a brickwall but certainly a stumbling block and it also covers occupations at the same time!!! My grandfather never married my grandmother and their son was born in December 1918 in Hastings, Sussex when my grandmother was 31. Grandfather was from Kilbarchan in Scotland and was 14 years older than my grandmother who was in service in Kent. According to Frank's will, which my Dad handwrote out for me (I must ask to borrow it from Mum so that I can photocopy it) he had been a draper in Glasgow (early 1900s) but the family history was of hand loom weavers in Kilbarchan and then moving into Paisley where they worked in mills - winders and weavers. According to an obituary notice he died, a bachelor, in Kent in July 1947 at Molash. He had come from Scotland to Molash 28 years before and was a sheepbreeder. So my grandfathers family started (as far as I have got) in weaving but he moved into the other end of "wool" by breading sheep (he was a member of the Kent or Romney Marsh Sheepbreeders Association). He must have met my grandmother before he settled in Kent working from Dad's age and that newspaper obituary - did he come down during the First World War as a soldier? Would he have been too old as he was 41 at the start of that war? Is there anywhere I can find out if he served in the forces and where and when, bearing in mind he was a Scot? I am never going to solve this unless I can make contact with his family as my grandmother was disowned by her family apart from one sister that she kept in touch with. Of course it is quite likely that his family didn't know about Dad either. It was only when my grandmother died that my father knew he had any living relatives and the sisters son and wife attended the funeral in 1976. They knew nothing about Dad's existence but they have visited and kept in touch since. My grandmother hated having to give details of my grandfather when my father needed them when he was called up in WW2and it was certainly something never talked about when I was a child. Liz